Abdel Rahman Chowdhury

Abdel Rahman Chowdhury (born 12 November 1963) is a Pakistani man convicted of providing material support to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. He worked at the University of Lahore and procured explosive materials, which he shipped to the Taliban to help them in manufacturing suicide vests. He was arrested on 22 December 2015 for his dealings with the Taliban.

Biography
Abdel Rahman Chowdhury was born in Lahore, Sindh, Pakistan. Chowdhury attended the University of Lahore and studied biochemistry, and in 1998 he was able to come up with enough funds to own his own fertilizer factory. In 2003, he was accepted into the University of Lahore's polytechnic school faculty as a Professor of Chemistry. He was sympathetic towards al-Qaeda and Taliban in their war against the United States just across the border in Afghanistan, so he used his role at the university to smuggle explosive materials such as PETN and nitroglycerin to the two groups during the Afghanistan War. On 22 December 2015, he was arrested for his providence of material support to known terrorist groups, and on 10 February 2016 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.